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bionicjoey , to asklemmy in how can I stop feeling offended when coworkers don't return my greetings?

Lots of people are giving you good answers given the context you’ve provided in this post. However, I glanced at your post history and saw that recently you’ve had an outburst at another employee where you shouted at them. It’s likely that your coworkers are looking out for themselves and trying to avoid setting you off by interacting with you as little as possible.

fmstrat ,

Yea this is a huge bit of context left out by OP.

cheese_greater ,

Its come to my attention…

OutlierBlue ,

Oh wow, yeah. Leaving that out is a big red flag.

Look into The Missing Missing Reasons

NauticalNoodle ,

Thanks for posting that link the examples in it seem very relatable and informative.

Carighan , to showerthoughts in If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead.
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

And keep in mind, the falcon sensor exists for Linux. All those big companies largely use it.

Essentially we just got lucky that their buggy patch only affected the windows version of the sensor in a showstopping way. Could have been all major OS.

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

I don’t think the Linux culture is very similar to the windows culture. At least for me personally, I wouldn’t use crowdstrike and let them install whatever they want into my environment.

Maybe it’s just me.

yeather ,

Welcome to the world of big retailers! They would rather run Linux with crowdstrike than make their own system.

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not your machine, your choice of distro, or your choice of specific packages to use or not use. It’s a work tool you get handed as part of a job. So whether CrowdStrike runs on it or not is not your decision and you aren’t allowed (and usually not capable) to change that.

That’s an entirely different situation from one where you get a PC to do with as you please and set up yourself, or a private machine.

Plus we’re mostly talking endpoint devices for non-technical users with many of these difficult-to-fix devices as techs have to drive out to them. The users expect a tool, and they get a tool. A Linux would be customized and utterly locked down, and part of that would be the endpoint protection software.

Takios ,
@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

We tried to fight against having to install Crowstrike on our Linux servers but got overruled by upper management without discussion. I assume we are not the only ones with that experience in the world due to the need to check a checkbox for some flimsy audit.

Damage ,

You’re actually confirming their point about culture though. The fact that you couldn’t stop them doesn’t mean that it also happened to everybody else: some management may have listened. Linux users abhor adding weird shit to their OS, Windows users do it all the time.

CookieOfFortune ,

I bet you could bring it up with them now…

candybrie ,

Essentially no one has crowdstrike on their personal machines. Not Windows users, Mac users, or Linux users. So it’s corporate/large organization culture that matters. And they absolutely use it.

Diplomjodler3 ,

Are you an admin in a corporate data center? If not, you’re not in the target audience for that product.

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Yup. And I think that says more about the corporate culture than the company that caters to them.

sag OP ,

Yep I know

DoucheBagMcSwag , to aboringdystopia in Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)

Boo for OP who didn’t name and shame

fmstrat ,

Was about to say the same. Up vote instead.

lurch ,

Zoom ID and pass are in the image tho 😄

Nelots ,

nypost.com/…/nyc-restaurants-use-zoom-cashiers-fr…

adding that she splits tips with her manager and kitchen staff at the restaurant.

They don’t even let her keep her entire tips. The whole situation is fucked. Somebody mentioned in the article also brought up a great point…

“Today, this is a Filipino woman behind a screen, controlling a POS system — but it’s not crazy to believe that probably in the next six to twelve months, this could be an AI avatar doing all the same things,” he said.

What a shitty future we have.

intensely_human ,

Well yeah. When you eat at a restaurant, and tip, generally you’re not intending to tip the solely the cashier.

Before chanting along with the hate chant just think for a second. When’s the last time you tipped a cashier, with the intention of the tip going to the cashier and none of the rest of the staff?

sunzu ,

That's right folks, this is why you don't tip cashiers or anyone else for that matter unless they get sub min wage rate.

explodicle ,

I never intend for them to go to the manager.

Gigasser ,

Um…yes I do. If I enjoy the service of one particular waiter, I expect that the tip (at least the majority of it, let’s say around 75-90% if not 100% of it) goes to the waiter who served me. If I’m tipping a cashier, I just give him a few bucks and tell him to pocket it discreetly.

5too ,

From the article, Sansan Chicken, Sansan Ramen, and Yaso Kitchen, all in NY. (Since nobody has said it yet)

pruwybn , to science_memes in Can't argue with that logic
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I think they’re onto something. In fact, these water mountains seem to be so common, it might just be one big water mountain that covers the whole planet, and is so big it eventually wraps around and meets itself at the bottom.

Lost_My_Mind ,

No no no. That would NEVER work! See, what’s actually happening is the lizardmen are driving these ships, and taking them to the pirate ports where they sell everything. Thats when they buy evrn MORE drugs, and Steve said I can have some of the drugs. So I started eating these gummies, but it turns out they’re just regular gummy bears. They’re still good though. I would trade you some of my gummy bears for some actual gummies, but I have misplaced my pants…

SnotFlickerman , to memes in definitely accurate
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Don’t forget:

  • Out of control sea level rise due to climate change, which is why they all live up in the sky
  • Mutants in the lower levels
cyberpunk007 ,

This I do not remember. Is this true?

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Nah, I’m just outjerking the jerk.

I mean, is Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law considered canon? If so, then yep, 100% true.

TSG_Asmodeus ,
@TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world avatar

Harvey Birdman: Mr. Boo Boo, would you consider yourself a revolutionary?

Boo Boo: Well, no. But I believe corporations rob us of our dignity and independence, and that these systems must be ripped down, or levelled by any force necessary… But that’s just one little bear’s opinion.

Harvey Birdman: A cute, fuzzy little bear. (smiles at jury) The defense rests

saigot ,

IIRC the canon reason they are above the clouds is because of smog.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Just searched, and it looks like you’re correct.

Also, apparently there’s an episode where Spacely and Cogswell are arguing about real estate and they discuss a rule of Orbit City which requires all buildings to be at least 2200 feet off the ground (I assume from their “bottom”), which would make their homes roughly the top floors of the Burj Khalifa

ouRKaoS ,

I still like the theory that the “mutants” below are just the Flintstones. The Jetson society hoarded all the technology and moved into the sky to get away from the peasants…

joelfromaus ,
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

Which still absolutely checks out for the current timeline.

grehund , to nostupidquestions in Why does it feel like too much effort just to go from sitting around looking at garbage online to simply watching a film or playing a video game?

Depression

Nobody ,

Often caused by an imbalance in brain chemicals, which can be corrected with medicine.

Get diagnosed and take your meds. It’s a world of difference.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

To be clear, this doesn’t necessarily mean “get diagnosed for depression” either.

No, as others have suggested, get a blood test.

Accelerating depression was surprisingly a symptom of my cancer. So being depressed can also be a symptom of something far more serious than just depression.

My depression is still bad, but the difference between taking my cancer meds (not psychiatric meds) and not taking my cancer meds, is a world of difference, depression-wise.

LeFrog ,
@LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

So being depressed can also be a symptom of something far more serious than just depression.

This is very poor wording. Depression is one of the deadliest illnesses in young people.

Psych ,

Eh what about young people with stage 4 cancer ?

/s

I agree depression is serious but come on you know what they meant .

Jessica ,

Vitamin D deficiency as well!

Nearly 42% of adults in the United States have a vitamin D deficiency. This figure rises to almost 63% in Hispanic adults and 82% in African American adults.

healthline.com/…/vitamin-d-deficiency-symptoms

If your shadow is longer than you are tall, you are not getting enough ultraviolet radiation to produce vitamin D. You need about 15 minutes a day.

Some of the symptoms are fatigue and depression

Psych ,

What is this shadow longer than your tall thing ? I have never heard of it lol . Can you explain how to check it or why it is a thing that happens and is real ?

kambusha ,

I think that’s saying that if you go out at sunrise/sunset, the sun is on the horizon, and so your shadow will be a lot longer. In that scenario, you aren’t getting enough UV to produce the vitamin D you need.

Psych ,

Still I don’t understand does shadows have something to do with vitamin D ?

Trail ,

No. It means how high is the sun.

Trail ,

With booze and mushrooms and so.

Psych ,

And maybe a little weed, I heard sun Doesn’t even need a lighter to light it so must be a pro at that .

Monument ,

6/9 Blaze it

userflairoptional ,
@userflairoptional@lemmynsfw.com avatar

A shallow angle from the sun give you that long shadow, but it also gives the light lots of extra air to pass through sideways on it’s way down out of space. The extra air filters out more light, and without an intense enough light your skin won’t make Vitamin D.

Fermion ,

If you have a long shadow, the sunlight that gets to you has gone through much more atmosphere which attenuates the ultraviolet light. So at high/low lattitudes and during morning/evening hours the amount of uv that gets to the surface is much lower.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Angle of the sun. Sunlight’s not intense enough for your skin to use the radiation to help generate the D.

BackpackCat ,

I found out last doctor’s appointment my vitamin d is insanely low so I started taking a supplement this week and it’s made a world of difference already! Highly recommend trying it out if you feel burnt out and low energy all the time especially if you spend a lot of time inside. Its also relatively pretty cheap all things considered which is nice.

WoolyNelson , to asklemmy in What vital task did you not realize someone was doing regularly until they suddenly stopped?

Coworker of mine was handling hardware returns for our main data center. There were two issues with this: It wasn’t his job and he never told anyone about it. Work fired him during his vacation because they saw he wasn’t completing his assignments, but never asked him for reasons.

Six months later, the company got hit with over 200k in service plan renewals for hardware we no longer used.

cygnus ,
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Lmao, I hope you let him know after this happened.

Hazzia ,

Imagine being in a meeting with all the most important people when they figure out the problem and it turns out that you were the one who fired the guy. What I wouldn’t give to listen in on that meeting lmao

treadful ,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

You know they just blamed the dude they fired for doing things he wasn’t asked.

andyburke ,
@andyburke@fedia.io avatar

This right here? ☝️

This is how "business" people save money.

STOP HIRING BUSINESSPEOPLE

slazer2au ,

Save a penny, cost a pound.

Catoblepas , to nostupidquestions in Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?

The humor is way more redditty on lemmy. Which I realize sounds nonsensical, but a huge portion of lemmy users are former reddit users who both think reddit humor is funny and have like 10 years of reddit humor memes to draw on. The “early” (2012ish) reddit I’m remembering had less of that and a lot more of what current users would consider cringe, like f7u12 comics. And a lot more general weird nerd awkwardness… like the frozen soap post.

atocci ,
@atocci@kbin.social avatar

I can look at the earliest posts and comments on my account from 10 years ago and cringe at my past self. I'll definitely be able to do the same with this account in the future haha

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

Reddit in 2010-2012 also had a lot of really insufferable atheists everywhere. Someone would say something like “thank god everyone’s ok” and get downvoted while a bunch of people replied stuff like “if god is responsible for them being ok, then he would also be responsible for the crash and shouldn’t be thanked at all”.

Catoblepas ,

As a queer trans dude who grew up in a deeply southern baptist community in the rural south, nobody is ever going to be able to make me care about atheists saying mean things about Christians online ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

I maybe didn’t use the best example, but it was less about people actually being religious and instead if they used any sort of popular phrasing that had any slight religious element they would try to turn it into a religion debate.

A better example is that someone might post a polish word, someone else would reply “bless you” acting like the polish word was a sneeze sound, and then the 14-year-old atheists would descend and start a debate.

Catoblepas ,

I definitely remember some of that and being annoyed by it; sorry for misunderstanding your first post, I’ve run into a lot of people who are weirdly defensive of how society being more overtly Christian back then was good, when it was absolute hell for some of us.

flicker ,

This is the best kind of people coming to an understanding.

marcos ,

On one hand, it clearly showed me how much theist bullshit exists on both my culture and the internet anglicentric one.

On the other hand, it makes me see very clearly how much I don’t care about the origins of culture instead of its immediate values.

Miaou ,

You were very clear in your comment. Look at the instance of the person you replied to…

Catoblepas ,

Sorry my PTSD and instance choice inconvenienced you.

Miaou ,

I don’t get the cynism, I never implied any of those things. My heart to you on dealing with the trauma, really.

Most people on blahaj seem to have similar problems however and it makes for strange interactions, like this one here. I’m not sure how pointing out you probably were not thinking clearly in the comment above is bothering you so much. I mean, you’re even the one talking about PTSD I reckon, not I.

Good luck with everything, hopefully you can read this before overzealous mods decide to delete it too.

reversebananimals ,

Lemmy has its own version of that with self declared “leftists”

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

I was probably one of those insufferable idiots for a while, as I was still new to atheism at the time. Now I don’t really waste energy on that stuff. Nobody cares. It’s just being annoying. Reminds me of another trend that’s happening today… but I’m not about to point that out.

flicker ,

Vagueposting is lame. Either say something or don’t. Don’t call attention ot what you’re not saying.

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

That sounds soooooo tiresome.

Believe or don’t. I don’t care. Just don’t get on a soapbox about it.

BassaForte ,
@BassaForte@lemmy.world avatar

Rage comics aren’t cringe. If anything, a lot of modern memes are just reskins of rage comics.

glimse ,

Rage comics at least took some thought to put together. I still think they’re pretty cringe but they’re way better than replacing the text on a tired meme template and calling it content

Rakonat ,

Honestly miss rage comics, most of them were pretty cringe and reskinned 4chan greentext but there was a surprising amount of creativity and humor that could be put into them when people were doing more than just following a formula for imaginary Internet points.

Thinking of things like the time someone did the entire Bohemian Rhapsody song in rage comic form.

jol ,

Reddit as it became mainstream turned more into 9gag where everyone is just doing the same jokes for best results. Whenever you have some sort of score, you will have people optimizing for that.

Because in Lemmy upvotes don’t matter so much, I notice that there’s less pressure from people to rehash and repost memes and jokes.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

A lot of early reddit humor was 4chan/9gag humor though.

Catoblepas ,

Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely not saying that reddit was a bastion of original comedy. It just didn’t have what I would call reddit humor at that point in time because that took a decadeish to get to where it is now.

Khrux ,

I started regularly using Reddit in 2013 and r/funny was general low quality spam from there sites, with A LOT of reposts, basically all content was the same content on loop. r/adviceanimals was huge and was basically a mashup of shower thoughts, jokes, off my chest and general opinionated statements, and it was huge. r/f7u12 was big but already seen as declining and cringe.

The humour here isn’t just Reddit style, the enormous amount of shitpost humour here is reflected in basically all “taking to chronically online strangers” community on the internet, from twitter to discord etc. I’d say shitpost humour outweighs all the other humour in this site.

What Lemmy absolutely does have in common with old Reddit is the userbase being a bunch of trekie programmers. It used to be tech support on their office computers and now it’s software developers on their home Linux machines but the way people talk and act is really similar. In old Reddit days, it was so easy to assume that whoever you spoke to was in work that it was the normal assumption, and you’d see a massive uptick in porn on r/all when evening hit in America. Summer Reddit was a name given to the school kids who’d suddenly swarm the sites in the summer holidays during office hours, and the average age and humour had a noticeable shift.

Lemmy now feels like a site of similar in their 30s but they don’t have 9-5 desk jobs where they browse Lemmy all day, so the hourly and daily trends don’t really align like they used to, now it’s all the classic trends at once as teenagers use Lemmy on their phones in school and work from home means people are shitposting and jerking off all day and night.

theywilleatthestars , to nostupidquestions in Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?

No, people were racist about him constantly

foggy ,

Did this black-ass president just order fucking DIJON MUSTARD?!?

Like… They attacked for everything.

CaptDust , (edited )

Pasty old white dudes are still livid they can’t rock a tan suit and have it looking this good. It’s the contrast, y’all

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b232e57a-058e-41b9-8890-1ff8e85c632a.jpeg

Editing because this still cracks me up:

Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit’s color to be “unpresidential.” He went on: “There’s no way, I don’t think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching.”

Gigan ,
@Gigan@lemmy.world avatar

I voted for Obama but that is an ugly suit.

barsquid ,

Not every suit can be a winner. The point is that tan looked just as bad on every other president. All the recent guys have worn one, too.

Well, maybe not Donald? He probably wanted more color variety, since he spent the vast majority of his time in chinos for golfing.

Rhaedas ,

Yet not a word when other Presidents wore similar or the same color before and after. It was just something to target.

billiam0202 ,

No no no, it was the color they had a problem with, it just wasn’t the suit.

pete_the_cat ,

I totally forgot about this one.

some_guy ,

“He said it so now I can say it.”

Ziggurat , to asklemmy in Does anyone else remember when "they" broke up the anti-work movement on reddit by putting a mod on fox news then dividing the community by creating the work reform sub?

Remember that

  • Unless your a professional communicator, talking to media is always dangerous. They can totally change what you say using “editing”, and loaded question can quickly trap you. There is a reason why there is so many job in communication and media assistant, you don’t want to let people talk unsupervised
  • Honestly, if only a sub reddit keeps a political movement alive, it isn’t a political movement
snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

To expand on the point about editing for anyone who assumes that is only means taking things out of context, editing can also be rearranging the order of communication to change the meaning as well as introducing context prior to the interaction that changes the meaning.

Fox News is known for doing all of that.

coaxil ,

The ol Frankenbite/frankenedit

nivenkos ,

Wtf is a “professional communicator”? How do you think you get there?

They just needed someone who wasn’t really weird, and had a proper job. Look at Mick Lynch’s interviews in the UK for example - he did great work for the union.

Skua ,

Lynch is a professional communicator, surely? His job is literally to represent the interests of the members of the union. And he's very good at it.

Shiggles ,

It’s not a job description, it’s a skillset. Any public face would want it.

otp ,

Unless you’re* a professional communicator, talking to media is always dangerous. They can totally change what you say using “editing”, and loaded question can quickly trap you.

This is probably the real reason why politicians never actually say “yes” or “no”! Haha

frauddogg ,
@frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml avatar

"After that, I made it a rule, I only do e-mail responses to print interviews; because these people love to put a twist in your words, to infer that you said somethin fuckin absurd–" – Mike Shinoda, “Get Me Gone”

addmen , to nostupidquestions in Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature?

Yes.

geodes

nutsack ,

Damn that was fast I was just going to link a picture of my mons wagnus

Cornucopiaofplenty ,

Your mom’s what??

Thassodar ,

His mom’s wangus, pay attention.

bloom_of_rakes OP ,

When you zoom in on those pristine facets it looks like a gravel driveway

meekah ,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, if you zoom far enough, its just a few atoms floating around in mostly nothing.

Define “flat” and “straight”

BugleFingers ,

Okay! Can do!

Defnitions: Flat (adjective), My chest. Example My chest was flatter than an angle measured at 180°

Straight (adjective) anything that has perfect parallelism to my chest. (See notes)

Notes (Straight): Straight cannot be used as an adjective to describe my sexuality.

Additional information some users may find helpful: This is satire

FAQ: Is this commentary on anything political? A: No, this is typically considered bad humor.

Is this a joke? A: yes, this is a joke just as much as the author of the joke is -entirely.

Why did you write this? A: I thought of this stupid joke and have no impulse control on writing dumb comments (see previous question)

What is the meaning of life? A: 42

Do dinosaurs really exist? A: I had Dino nuggies last night and do not believe big chicken would lie to me about making up dinosaurs, so yes they are real

Has this joke gone too far? A: This joke is for me, I need to make myself laugh

BugleFingers ,

As a serious note though, on a micro enough scale, everything will become bumpy/not a single linear thing. On a macro enough scale it would be impossible to determine variation and appear flat.

In a common human sense, many things are flat and linear to normal human perception. Many crystal and metal formations have flat, straight, and sharp features.

And something theorized to be existing and straight would be (iirc) the planck length. Light so energized that the wave becomes essentially linear (please verify because this is memory only)

Rentlar , to technology in Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

Lemmy server operators can now say they have better 24h uptime than Meta! lol

_dev_null ,
@_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz avatar

Just updated my résumé.

WeLoveCastingSpellz , to piracy in Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent

uTorrent is adware

CaptainSpaceman ,

Ever since uTorrent started mining on users computers, ive been on QBT

kratoz29 ,

Is it still being updated? I ran from it when I knew Transmission and Qbittorrent were a thing.

z3n0x , to asklemmy in Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual?
@z3n0x@feddit.de avatar

“In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.

Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”

qz.com/…/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidi…

ForgotAboutDre ,

Some may argue the internet has allowed them to coordinate. Providing each other with new and more novel ideas.

AceFuzzLord ,

This is why I am 100% in favor of normalizing regularly having things like computer/internet literacy tests msybe every half decade to ensure you are actually smart enough to use the internet in a responsible manner. Don’t pass? No internet access for you outside of things educational material, cooking recipes, or sending messages to people. No access to your social media or conspiracy theory groups or anything else that’ll harm your brain.

It’ll either encourage people to get better at cheating, give up on using the internet entirely, or they might actually try to learn something and better their lives.

Some will definitely complain that they’re having their rights violated (USA), but if it keeps the Internet safe from stupidity even by a small margin, I’ll gladly take it.

angstylittlecatboy ,

I am so sick of reading proposals like this from probably-white non-US Westerners who have probably never actually had to engage with the idea that racism exists. This might get some fascist groups off the internet, sure, but it would also likely push oppressed minority groups who do not necessarily have access to quality education out. That’s the history of minimum IQ requirements for voting, mind you.

Put this proposal in front of a Proud Boy and they’ll likely be in favor of it, because they believe whites are the only people smart enough to pass it. They’ll stop being in favor once it goes into effect and they’re included along with groups they hate in the “not allowed online” crowd, but the groups they hate, some of whom’s situations may be made direly worse by the lack of unrestricted internet access, will most likely be pushed out too.

Hexarei ,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

Here we have a person who has never considered the important question: Who among us is intelligent enough to decide where the line lies between good enough and not good enough?

When do we consider someone too stupid to use the Internet? Bottom 50%? Bottom 10%? If bottom 10%, what do we do about the people who score exactly with 10.1%? They’re nearly indistinguishable from the bottom 10% in terms of performance, yet they still get to go online?

Who decides which sites and services are ok? The government? The ISP? The site creators? You? What happens when your approved messaging service adds short form videos? Adds group chats?

The ultimate problem: There are no good answers to any of these questions, and if you think you have one, you are almost certain to have missed something significant in your evaluation of the options.

folkrav ,

You’re basically proposing a “social IQ” test that would effectively make people social pariahs (good luck making your taxes, finding a job, etc, without the internet, nowadays) over not being educated enough.

Do you realize there’s literally one step between this and advocating for eugenics? Do you measure the potential for abuse? Who gets to decide what’s “smart” enough for the internet?

ChrisLicht ,
Senuf ,

Thanks a lot for that link. I am a hardcore science fiction nerd, yet I had never crossed paths with that one. Indeed relevant in this debate, too.

trailing9 ,

Which gives you billionaires who have the power to make decisions uninterrupted by commoners.

firesDump ,

And then the billionaires themselves have idiots among them.

trailing9 ,

, who will lose their money quickly.

nitefox ,

I try my best to keep in check my stupidity thus offloading some of the work of the smart people. Unfortunately, I fail most of the time

Lettuceeatlettuce , to asklemmy in What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

I thought that when the clerk at the checkout asked, “would you like cash back?” That you could say yes and they would just give you cash straight out of the register for nothing lol.

I figured that most people were very honest and didn’t need the money, so they would just say no thanks and leave it in the register for somebody who really did need it.

Mothra ,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

Similarly, I thought one could get more money by asking for change. You give one bill, you get more bills and coins in return, it’s gotta be more, right?

imaqtpie ,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Aww that’s adorable 🤣

ch00f ,

I thought grownups got paid every day and “pay day” was just a special day when you got more money.

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